22. she/her. This blog is a never ending love letter to Elvis 💌
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there is a love in which i will always know you, just incase you forget.
love elizabeth s.
— Juansen Dizon
August 18, 1956:
Elvis Presley was photographed by photographer Ed Braslaff at the Knickerbocker Hotel in Hollywood, California, where he was staying.
besties! interact with this post if you’re an active elvis blog so i can follow you! ✨✨
Oh E, how can i cope without you here? 🤍🎀
whens the next yours truly chapter? :(
Hi Anon! I have been so inactive, and I do apologize for this. Life has been a lot. But do not worry, I am still writing 'Yours Truly.' it is a story that is very, very dear to me.
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
Just got done spewing some facts under a video supporting Priscilla and her “movie” I thought I’d share them here:
So many people here are uneducated and will blindly believe everything Priscilla says because she’s a woman and it’s edgy to hate on Elvis.
1. Elvis was never actually wanting to date or marry Priscilla he was with an actress very much his age that was back home while he was in Germany. He just saw Prissy as someone to talk to. She has so many issues with her yandere type fan tendencies being obsessive over a man she wasn’t even with in the first place and who didn’t give her a second thought
2. She did NOT hopelessly wait around for Elvis after he left she continued to play several different guys and she did have a very normal high school experience she went to dances and football games
3. Prissy’s father blackmailed Elvis into marrying her. Elvis did NOT want to marry Priscilla
4. Yes, Elvis cheated but not until after Priscilla cheated first with her dance instructor. She’d also call him while she was doing the deed so he could hear
5. Priscilla said herself the chair scene is highly inaccurate. Elvis was angry on the phone with the Colonel and threw a chair to the wall as Priscilla was walking in the room and he immediately apologized and said he didn’t see her come in
6. She constantly changes her story and her book she said herself isn’t accurate because she said if she didn’t make it dramatic enough it wouldn’t sell
7. For those who might say “she’s a child, she can’t do no wrong she didn’t know what she was doing” at 14 I was well aware of shit and what I did. And I know she did too she wasn’t some innocent angel
8. She’s an awful mother to Lisa Marie. Actively dated and let a man around Lisa that had said he had inappropriate feelings for Lisa when she was a child
9. Got with a married man who had a PREGNANT wife. Yes it’s also the man’s fault but she knew damn well he was married and his wife was pregnant
10. She cannot stop talking bs about Elvis cause he’s the only reason she’s relevant. In contrast to one of (what I believe to be) Elvis’ true loves Ann Margaret who only says nice things about him but she also had a career before meeting him
All in all, yes Elvis had some flaws but people spread misinformation about him all the time just like they do with Michael Jackson. Priscilla is no saint, she’s a lying gold digger who only cared about money in the first place. Not to mention she was laughing at Elvis’s funeral so if she truly was “in love” then why would she do such an awful thing by laughing? She continues to use the Presley name even though Elvis told her not to after they divorced and constantly spew lies and drop his name over and over again. She’s told her story countless times, this movie was slander towards a man who cannot defend himself. Like I said Elvis wasn’t a saint either but you need to take off the rose colored glasses and see both sides of the story. Thank you.
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I call upon the fan fic writing gods to bless you with the perseverance to finish one of your unfinished drafts.
May your fingers dance along the letters upon your device with ease, may the devil of distraction stay far from you, and may your work not need much editing.
I pass this blessing upon every fan fic writer out there.
This man… ❤️❤️❤️❤️
Creative Writing Hack #4
Word Association Games
Word association games are a fun and effective way to jumpstart your creativity and overcome writer's block. Start by brainstorming a list of random words or phrases, then write down everything they make you think of, no matter how seemingly unrelated. For example, if the word is "rain," you might jot down "umbrella," "puddle," "stormy," "cozy," "damp," and so on. Use these associations as springboards for generating ideas, characters, settings, or plot twists for your story. Don't censor yourself—let your imagination run wild and see where it takes you.
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i like to imagine that finding true love will be like stepping into a house i've never been to before and finding out i can navigate it with the lights off, in the pitch black dark. like coming home
“I know this transformation is painful, but you’re not falling apart; you’re just falling into something different, with a new capacity to be beautiful.”
— William C. Hannan
#yourstruly
“Good books don’t give up all their secrets at once.”
— Stephen King
I'm trying to prove a point to my brain: Reblog if you think fanfiction does not need sex to be good.
There is a trend I’ve noticed that smut fics tend to be much more popular than anything else and honestly I just want to have something to look at to remind myself and that writing doesn’t have to have sex to be worth putting out into the community.
WRITE IT!!! WRITE THAT SELF INDULGENT SHIT!!!
The Green Scrapbook 📗
Why Elvis is a legend? Simple answer: HARD, HARD WORK... on and off stage.
That's the most interesting thing I've learned about Elvis lately.
This fanzine was out… it is called "Elvis Answers Back!", printed by Sound Publishing Corp in 1956 (view photo 3 and video 1 further on). In its pages, Elvis answer questions about his career and personal life in that genuine way we love so much about his interviews. There's very interesting answers in those pages (I'll share more in this blog in a while) but this one got me in awe. What we're about to read Elvis did in the 50s, while he was in the peak of his success as a young artist, specifically in the year of 1956, it's a demonstration of his courage, down-to-earth spirit, and a passionate level of dedication to his craft that few artists, or normal people for that matter, have.
Some of the pictures printed in the Elvis Answers Back! magazine: August 18, 1956. Elvis at the Knickerbocker Hotel, Hollywood, CA. Photograph by Ed Braslaff.
The magazine article is in topics. This one is entitled "THE GREEN SCRAPBOOK", and here's what Elvis had to say about this "rumor":
"Yes, it’s true that I keep me a scrapbook of a lot of the stuff that’s printed about me. But you know something? I don’t save the articles or stories that tell nice things about me. My scrapbook only has stuff in it that isn’t very friendly. I’ll tell you why this is. "When I first started out, my momma wanted to save all the programs and pictures and things that everyone put in the papers and magazines. I wasn’t much interested in doing this, because I was so busy singing and working and learning that I just didn’t want to take the time to sit down every so often in the middle of something and start cutting out pictures and things. Momma bought her a big green scrapbook, though, and asked me to send her stuff whenever I got the chance. For the first year or so, I didn’t send her a thing, and the scrapbook was empty, except for a couple of clippings she got out of the Memphis papers.
Some of the pictures printed in the Elvis Answers Back! magazine: (1) June 30, 1956 in Richmond, VA. Elvis drinking water after having a bowl of chili, sitting at the Jefferson Hotel lunch counter; (2) Elvis at the RCA's Studio One in NY, for a recording session on July 2, 1956, when he recorded "Hound Dog" and "Don't Be Cruel." Both photographs by Alfred Wertheimer.
"Then one day I saw this article about me not being a very good singer. I cut that out and send it to momma and she wrote back and told me I didn’t want to fill my scrapbook with things like that. But I wrote back and told her, 'Momma, anyone can fill a scrapbook with good things. But what good does it do? I’d like to know the things people don’t particularly like and study them and try to make myself better if I can.' "So that’s how The Green Scrapbook got started. I’ve got a lot of pages filled, and a lot of them are still empty, but I’ll tell you this. Every time I go home to Memphis, I take down that scrapbook and study it. I know most of the things in it by heart, and I’m always going to do my best to improve whenever and wherever I can." — Elvis Presley, 1956 interview.
Cover of Elvis Answers Back! magazine, published on August 28, 1956 | Source: elvis100percent.com
SEE THE CONTENT IN THE PAGES OF THAT 1956 ELVIS MAGAZINE (this is an US limited edition reproduction of the 1956 original magazine):
Thanks "Collecting King Elvis Interviews and Memobilia" Youtube channel for sharing this gem.
“To have someone understand your mind is a different kind of intimacy.”
— Unknown
“Why would the universe go through all that trouble to bring us together, to only make us strangers again in the end?”
— Unknown
N/A: This is the first fanfiction I write in English and about Elvis Presley! I have such a fun time writing the first chapter and making the cover and all the little edits to make it more real! It was really fun. Also, Elvis will not appeared in that chapter but he will appeared in the second chapter (I'm sorry) but it was important to me to put the base of this story in a certain way.
Summary : You are a young and talented agent of the "I.T.A" or International Time Archives Agency. Your job is to time-travel in the past to collect information, content, and stuff from the past to enrich the knowledge of the history for the present time. As was your father, you are one of the greatest and promised agents of your time (although you nearly start your career) and more specifically of the department that focuses on old celebrities. You were praised for succeeding in one of the most iconic and hard missions known in your department: "The Red Lipstick."
After a huge success and a great reputation on your own, the agency decided to put you on a new quest to complete, and this one was as hard as the previous one : "The Bossa Nova mission". Although, for you, it seemed as easy as "one, two, three" because it was just stealing old stuff from no other than Elvis Presley. For you, it will be easy and quick because of his reputation and lifestyle.
Therefore, you didn't think that one mission that you think would be so easy would be one of your most intense, hardest, and unique mission you ever did at the point to reconsider all your priorities because of the one who would steal you heart as you steal (involuntarily) his...
Mister Presley.
Warning : idk right now i'm sorry but i'm gonna say everything is a warning.
•○LOVE IS TIMELESS○•
Chapter 1
It's the beginning of the summer, the sky is blue as the ocean, birds are singing and it is eight in the morning. You are layed in your round pink bed, covered by a pink silky blanket, your head hiding in your fluffy pillow. You are trying to stay in your dream world while the birds outside sing more and more loudly as the second passes while the sunlight light up your room making it very hard for you to stay in a deep state of sleep. You end up, after five minutes, to wake up and leave your dreamy world for the real one. You look at the little alarm clock on your white nightstand to see what time it is before stretching yourself and leaving your bed.
You put on your pink fluffy slippers and your white vest before going out of your colorful girly bedroom. You can hear music from downstairs, some oldies that your mom liked to put on while she was cooking for her and your father breakfast. Also, you can hear your dad complaining about being retired from his "perfect job" and working at the administration of the military now. You rub your eyes, trying to wake yourself up a bit more as you slowly walk and go downstairs. You can smell more and more strongly the sent of grilled bacon and crumble eggs plus the noise of your parents talking, making you little by little quite your sleepy state of mind.
You didn't even step a foot in the kitchen that your mom, as sweet and caring as she was, turned her head to look at you, like she feel your presence to ask you with her sweet voice.
《Sweetheart, how are you? Did you sleep well?》
You look at her tired but with a small smile on your face, even when you didn't want to talk, you can't just start to be mean to her : she was the sweetest mom in the whole world!
《Really tired mom... I sleep well but not enough》
You go in front of the big shelf to take the box of cornflakes after going back in front of the fridge to take the bottle of milk to make your breakfast. Your father was sitting on the chair of the dinner table. He was reading the newspaper before lifting his head to make eye contact with you and exclaimed.
《Tired? Y/N you can't stay all night long to stay in call with your boyfriend like that. How will you stay the best agent of I.T.A if you are tired like that mh?》
You look at your father with an annoyed face before taking your bowl of cereals and take a seat in front of him. You love your father, you really do, but since you decided to take the relieving of his job in I.T.A he was very though and strict with you. It was at a certain point understandable : you big brother didn't want to take the relieving of this and you were the only one who wanted it and excel in it but your father was hard and want you to be as perfect and strong as it was which put to much pression on your shoulders. You take one spoon of cereals before responding. Also, you didn't want to start discuss on how you should act or not when you just even woke up.
《Dad... I already am the promised future of the agency! And it's not because I talk to my lover that it will change something. Okay, I'm tired now, but... it's not like it was always like that!》
Your mom came back with her and her husband breakfast in her two hands. She put the dishes on the table before taking a seat and add.
《Also Marcus, she's only twenty years old... she have the time to be an excellent and perfect agent like you did! Don't you remember? At her age you were in a relationship with me and it didn't stop you to be the greatest of your time!》
Your father sigh at you and your mama arguments before starting to eat his crumble eggs and fried bacon.
《I know Bett'... but I want her to be perfect, do more things and better things than me you know? She's like... my heiress, my me 2.0... I want her to be perfect!》
Your mom sighed and mumbled, "You will never change," while you were looking deep in your bowl of cornflakes. You will prove to him that he doesn't need to worry because you will be the best of the best.
Your dad was in the past a special agent for the agency "I.T.A" or most known as "International Time Archives." It was an intergovernmental agency which used time-traveling to enrich the knowledge of the past in every way possible : politically, social life, lifestyle, pop culture ect... your dad was part of the I.T.A. when it open. He was one of the best agents of his time and was working on the "Celebrities department,"which he used to time-travel a lot. He traveled so much that you didn't see him a lot until you were sixteen. After that, he prayed every night for your brother to join him in the agency, but he refused because he knew how much time it took and didn't want to do it. But you... you always dream of it! Time traveling seems so fun to you and so exciting. When your father heard about your ambition to be an I.T.A agent, he put everything in his will to make you one of the greatest! He put you on mission with him. However, at this time, you're were just a novice learning how to be a good agent in the I.T.A. private school! After that, you're ending quickly to work for the agency because of your father. You were like a type of "nepo-baby" in the game because your dad did everything to put you in work as early as possible but this luck was because of the hard work and the huge pression your dad inflicted to you, make you sometimes had multiple breakdown and question yourself a lot about if yes or no you deserved all that luck and even if you deserved the pride of your father.
Although your hard work pays off because of that one mission you successfully completed. Everyone was in admiration towards you, was greeting you and was being proud of your accomplishment as a young agent. Your father was even more proud as he shows off every time he can how his daughter was "the future of I.T.A" and "The pride of his life". The pression was even more intense than before but you try to handle it as much as you can.
Since you were in your mind thinking about all that, you father wake you up from your though by saying.
《Also Y/N, early this morning, i take the mail to see if we have letters from your brother, taxes, or i don't know what. I find this in the mailbox, that's for you.》
he slid the letter, which was beside his coffee cup and put it right in front of your bowl. You take it delicately and read the front side of the letter. It was written "Confidential, Y/N, I.T.A". You open it in front of your dad and in front of your worried mom who was not feeling good about this letter. You take the paper out of the letter and read it not too loud, just enough for you parent to hear it.
After reading it, your mom took a sip of her cup of tea before exclaimed.
《Marcus, before you say something. I'm against Y/N doing this mission》.
You look at you mom, not really surprised. Since you came back from your previous mission, she got really worried about your tiredness and your sanity. She thinks you need to rest, enjoy your twenties, and do lover things with your boyfriend. She already told you all of that but never told your father about it. She was too scared to start an argument with your proud father, who wants you to be "the best."
Your father looks at your mom conflicted, he didn't care what your mother says, he love your mom for sure, but he legacy was dearer to him. So he glanced at you and smiled quietly before asking you.
《Y/N, don't you want to improve yourself? This mission is such an opportunity for you to be greater than now and to learn more things that you have learned from the past. And my sweet Y/N... didn't you tell me that you love Elvis Presley?》
《I do like him dad but... let me think about it just for a few minute...》
You look at your mom, then your dad in total reflection about what you did read, what your mother said, and what your father also told you. Of course, you were tired, and you really really want a break from this job, but oh God... your dad was right! You really want to improve and be better and never be surpassed by anyone and also want to be the pride of him. Although... there were an another reason! You really liked Elvis Presley!
Of course, like a lot of people from your generation, you discovered him because of the "Elvis" biopic by Baz Lurhmann and fell in love with his most popular song as you fell in love for the actor who played him : Austin Butler. But it was not only that.
When you were in that "lipstick" mission, you were in the fifties, more precisely in the mid fifties when he actually blew up. At this time, your target was no other than Miss Maryline Monroe. You were undercover as her personal assistant, and you did (even if the agency forbidden this action) ask her for a rest day only to go see Elvis at his concert. So you already saw him when he was young, wild and free. You remember how incredible it was and how your heart pounded every time he sang, danced, and acted on scene. He was magical and unique, and no other concert was able to make you feel the same way after living this one. You also remember that tiny eye contact that you made with him that cause you to melt a little bit.
You never talk to anyone about that "forbidden act" you did, nobody need to know after all, and it didn't mess up the temporality. After thinking about your choice and maybe also to pleased your father, you look at your mom with a bright smile and respond.
《You know what? I'm fine, mom, I swear! I'm a strong girl, and dad is right. I want to improve myself, to be the best period. So, to be the best, I need to practice, and this lil mission is just as easy as "one, two, three." I will end it in less than a week and go back home peacefully, so don't worry, mom!》
Your mom looked at you and sighed before covering her face with her hands to show how exasperated she is.
《Sweetheart please... don't be so hard-headed! You need some rest please and don't listen to your father, he just want... to satisfy his ego towards his friends!》
Your father eyes were wide open when he heard what your mom said. His attitude starts to act out, and he start to complained.
《Please Bett', did you really think I'm doing all of that for my OWN ego? Please don't start here. I just want her to be the best!》
You were already annoyed by this little argument your parents have in front of you. Before your mom can even retort to your father something, you put loudly your hands on the table to exclaimed.
《Don't start to argue... my choice is already done, I want to do it without being influenced by dad, mom. You two also know I kinda like Elvis Presley, so it would not be such a chore to do for me. Mom, I know you're worried, but trust me, I really want to do it!》
Your father smiled proudly, feeling like he won while your mother looked at you, still worried but she didn't try to retorted something against your choice. She only caresses your cheek and kisses you sweetly.
《Now, I need to let you two alone! I need to notice the agency about my decision!》
You leave the table and put the dishes in the dishwasher before leaving the Kitchen while saying.
《And don't argue too much!》
Which makes your parents laugh. You leave the kitchen and take the black wooden stairs to go upstairs in the bathroom to prepare yourself. You take your time. Take a hot shower before doing your hair, and go back to your bedroom to change yourself. You put on your most formal outfit ever : black flare pants, a white shirt which was softly opened and a black suit jacket to match your black pants. You put on some accessories like a leather belt, a tiny golden necklace, and some tiny golden hoops. After that you go back to the bathroom to put some make-up on, something light since you know the agency like neutral make-up so you only put on some eye-liner, mascara, red Lipstick and a bit of bronzer.
After all that, you take one of your handbag, your phone, and some important personal belongings before going downstairs in the entry of your house to put on some black high heels. Your mom saw you and goes toward you. You lift yourself up after putting in your heels, and your mama takes you in her arms while mumbled to you.
《Wish you luck》
You smiled and lightly laughed to what your mom murmured to you. You look at her and put your two hands on her shoulders before responding in the same tone.
《You don't need to, I know I will be taken》
You smiled before leaving the house without knowing that your mom prayed for you to not be taken.
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It's noon, you arrive at your destination. You stand in front of an old building that was standing between a lot of glorious hotels and casinos in Las Vegas. At first glance, it looks like one of those luxury hotels you can see everywhere in Las Vegas. But happily for you, it was not. You walk the stairs until you end up in front of a big black door with a little box in front of it, which you need to type a code to make it open. Of course, you know the code by heart, and you type it in the little box. That one thing made a noise that told you the door was open. You push it and enter a new world full of loud noises and people working here and there.
You enter the building full of noises, and people, walking, talking, and running here and there giving documents to one another. You can feel "work" and also the multiple temporalities condensed in one big building. You always liked to work here because of the mood of the agency! It was speedy, and intense and gave you so much adrenaline that you didn't feel the tiredness of work until you back home. It was like time was frozen and mixed in one building. You can find people dressed like the sixties, the fifties, the twenties, and even like the previous century. It was always fun! People ran in the hallway and worked on their desks or even planned their future mission! The vibe was comforting for you and for you it was your second home.
You, you knew where you needed to be. You walk confidently into the main hall of the building, saying hello to all of your co-workers before directing yourself to the elevator. When you were in, you pushed the button where it was written the number "4" and let the doors close before to bring you back on the fourth floor. You step outside the elevator and walk through the hallway. The walls were covered by golden and black wallpaper that gave an oldies vibe and the floor was covered by some red curtains. It was kind of dark, the old wall lamps were broken that was why it was so dark.
You stopped in front of a wooden door that was graved on it "Mr.Jacks" before knocking on it. A loud voice respond loudly to the knock.
《Please enter!》
So you opened the door and smiled at the old men who was in the room. The room was very oldish, giving some fifties detective vibe. It smell like alcohol, cigarett, and cheap perfum! Then there is that old men, sitting in his desk chair and smoking. He was very skinny, got those tired eyes, black skin and his face have those big hollow cheeks. He was wearing some old blue-ish suit that was to big for him and make him look like some cartoon-ish characters. He looked at you and pass one of his hands on his lacquered hair before taking his cigarett out of his lips and telling you.
《Y/N! I'm pleased to see you! Come and take a sit》
You enter the room and take a seat in front of him with that one big smile. Oh, you love Mister Jack! He was like a friend to you even though he was older than you. But he was always kind and caring toward you so it was no big deal.
《How are you Jack?》
You asked him, he looked at you and put his cigarette in the ashtray before responding.
《I'm fine lil Y/N, and you? Did you rest well since your last mission?》
《I'm fine Jack, I did rest but my mom thinks I didn't rest enough!》 You slightly laughed about it and he joined you.
《Your mom is so worried about you, you're a big girl now! She shouldn't be so worried. Did she know you're the best girl and can do everything?》
《I guess for her I'm still her little girl... I can understand that! She's a mother after all》
You softly smiled thinking about it, after all, it was her way of showing her love for you. Mr. Jack looked at you in a soft way before asking you.
《That's cute! ... So Y/N why are you here?》
You get out of you little though and go back in professional mode. You take the letter out of your handbag and give it to him with a big smile before saying.
《I received this, this morning, and I'm just here to tell you I accept to do this mission!》
He takes the letter and opens it to read the content. It was always fun to see Mr.Jack react to your convocation, letter, or anything else because he was always overreacting and acting out in front of you. And you did sometimes, laugh about it so much could it be funny.
《So Y/N gonna be with THE Elvis Presley??? My young self is jealous miss Y/N! I remember when I was young... I was a big fan of him but I never really got to saw him. But I guess you will do it for me!》
《Of course! And if you want I can take some pictures for you?》
He glanced at you with a pleased face before he sang.
《If you do so, I swear you gonna be my lil favorite!》
You laughed at his little attitude before adding.
《Because i'm already not?》
The two of you laughed together before taking back your seriousness. Mr.Jack goes under his desk to take something, he goes back correctly to his chair and gives you a file. You take it and look at it before opening it and reading the document that was in it. You first, read the document about your target and what you will need to do during that mission. You furrowed your eyebrows as you see how much censored that document is.
《Wow... I have never seen a much-censored document in my life. Is that an application of the FBI or what? Even the Marilyn Monroe case was not as censored at this one!》
Mr.Jack didn't respond to what you were saying, he only fixed you reading all the documents. You continued to study the files, you learned a bit about your mission: you need to take some important unreleased content and a "Red book" that tickles your curiosity. Also, it was mentioned that you should take some "content of his private life" 《maybe taking pictures of his private life》 you think to yourself. After that, you read the rules of the mission and your eyebrows furrowed even more and your eyes show how lost you are.
《Jack are they kidding? Is it a joke? How can I complete this mission successfully if I can't EVEN talk and create a little friendship with my target?》
Jack's face shows desperation because he had to read the whole files and was in total disbelief with the rules which seemed to complicate more the mission than others.
《Like for real Jack. I understand not talking to the people of the past, the "pastinger". But really??? Can we be for real for one minute now? I never saw this in my life. Even in my past mission, I was able to create some kind of friendship with my target because it was allowed and it was always allowed in every missions every agent in here do!》
You started to getting pissed and add.
《Just because he is "friendly" and "kind" should not be enough reason to not be his friend. Like how can I take all of what those applicants want without creating some trust between me and my target uh? It's unbelievable.》
Jack was understanding you, he related to your annoyance and put his hands together in a fist before putting his chin on it and tell you to reassure you.
《Listen to me Y/N, I know you can do it even with those hard rules. It seems impossible but trust me you can do it efficiently. And...》 he bent over you to murmur 《you can still break those rules and talk to him, just be careful and build just trust and not some type of relationship》
He wink at you and you feel reassured, more confident about that strange mission. You smiled.
《You're right! I'm gonna nailed it, I know it. Also Jack, do you know who are those applicants?》
Jack put his fingers in front of his lips like the response of that question was a secret.
《Can't tell you! They don't want to be known.》
《Mh, okay.》 You briefly respond. Jack pursuit that little conversation.
《So Y/N, you know where to meet us and when! Just need to add to not take a lot of clothes, the agency will provide you with all the clothes, skincare, and other types of stuff. Also, we will give you a fake ID, a credit card, some money, and other identity papers to be safe out there. Also, remember to never act like your own self. In there you will be the personal photographer of Elvis Presley, you already got the job and you will see him tomorrow at the International hotel.》
You node at everything you said before he continued his speech.
《For your background, the agency decided to make you become a girl who successfully graduated from university and search for a job. Both of your parents are dead for obvious reasons, you didn't have siblings. Your trait personality is that you are cold, professional, and distant in the professional world. They think it's a good way to make Elvis see you only as a worker and not as some worker "friend". And I guess that's it》
You grimace as you hear how you should act during the mission. You were the opposite of that. As usual, you were a bubbly girl who loved to make friends, act like a fool, take all the pleasure in life, do funny things, and be near everyone... you were not cold or distant and it hurt you a bit to hear that you would need to act like a cold-hearted woman. But I was for the mission so you don't argue with it.
《Ok! Thanks for all the information Jack!》
《Your welcome miss Y/N》
You smiled at him, took the files, and left your chair to leave the room. As you were leaving the building you thought about all of that and felt a bit odd about this mission: something wasn't seeming right but you didn't know what so you decided to not think about it and go back home to enjoy the last moment with your family.
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It was eleven at night, and your only little suitcase was ready, filled with your PC, some memories, your plushies, and other personal belongings. You were sitting on your bed, dressed like a girl from the sixties and with makeup like one too! You were wearing a baby pink short dress with a white shirt with puffed sleeves, your legs were dressed with white tights and some black heels. Your hair was slightly curled and side-parted, and you were wearing a pretty pink colored lipstick, some blush and an extravagant liner with fake lashes. Your nails was painted in white and you did know that you rocked that one outfit.
However, maybe you feel pretty and excited but before you leave you need to do one more thing: call your boyfriend. He didn't know about your mission and you already know how upset he will be. It's been now three years that you've been in a relationship together and it was very unhealthy between you two.
Although, you knew about the fact that your pretty boyfriend James didn't like your job. He often makes you notice how it takes much of your time and does not leave enough space for your love life. Of course, you were conscious of that but you always reassured him about that and told him that it was your dream and that it would not ruin your relationship. Because of your job, multiple conflicts between you and him appeared in your relationship making you very stressed and nervous because you do love James and you do want to do your life with him. But you also love your job to death and choosing between those two seems impossible for you.
This job is your child's dream job and it makes you happy but James is your first love, your dream husband and the love of your life.
So the chore of announcing to him that you'll go on a mission tonight at midnight makes you, for sure, kinda nervous... you don't want to lose him after all. So you take a deep breath, take your phone, and go into your contact register to click on his phone number and call him. The ring of the call stressed you even more, your heart was pounding and your hands shaking a little bit. You wait six second before hearing.
《Baby?》
You gulp your saliva and respond.
《Honey... are you? You good?》
You tell him while trying to hide your nervousness.
《Of course I'm good! And you?》
《I'm good...》 you respond before pursuing the talk to the main topic. 《Listen honey... tonight... i-i'll go on a mission and... and the mission is undetermined and... I swear I would go back in time as fast as possible and... and don't be mad please I...》 you didn't know what to say so you let a silence filled the conversation.
Your lover, on the other side of the phone, takes a moment before talking, he takes a deep breath like he is trying to hide how much he's not happy with that news.
《Y/N... you know, and I know that you know... that the anniversary of the day we met is coming soon? In three weeks more precisely... are you-》
You cut him as you said fastly and loudly.
《I promised you to be back in two weeks James! Trust me... I will be as fast and efficient as possible I swear. The mission is just... It's just taking things and that's it! Very easy. I will be here trust me please.》
You were nearly begging him to trust you with all his faith. You will do everything possible to keep him, you loved him so much. He put time to though about all that letting you again in the silence before responding.
《Well... I guess I have no choice but to accept the news... however, I know I can't say anything if you should go you will go. Keep your promise, don't betray it Y/N... I love you but this job is killing us...》
《I swear babe, I will go back much soon than you think! I love you you know it... I will do everything for you》
《If you say so》 he mumbled 《anyway Y/N... I go back to sleep... be careful, I love you》
《I love you t-》... you didn't even finish your sentence that he hung out the call. You sight sadly and look at your watch, it will soon go to the meet point.
You verify clearly if you don't forget something before taking your luggage and go downstairs where you father was waiting for you.
He look at your with a bright smile before telling you.
《We should go now!》
You only nodded before hugging tightly your mom and kiss her cheek.
《I love you mom, I'll miss you!》
She sadly look at you before saying.
《Please be careful and come back as quickly as possible back home my little princess》
You nodded before joining you father outside of the house. It's time to go.
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It's midnight, you father leaved you in front of the abandonned "Pink Vegas Restaurant" and your waiting outside in the slightly cold night those agents that should give you the things that will be provided to you by the agency.
You look at the dark blue sky and at those shiny stars who comfort you in that lonely place. Before leaving you father tell you how much proud he was of you and how he wish you'll do better than the Last missio. Deep into you it makes you proud to be his pride but also makes you nervous to maybe disappoint him if you don't do well.
You think about it and tell to yourself that you will do good, that you will be perfect and be the best of the best... not only for you but also for your father. To show him you was as excellent as him.
While you were lost in you thought, a red car park in front of the restaurant. The noise of the engine put you out of you thought, you look at the car and see two men dress as the Men In block get out of the car. One of them was short, red-headed and kinda chubby, the other one was as short as the red-headed one but more muscular and blond headed. The blond headed one go get out some stuff from the car's truck while the red headed one go towards you.
You look at him as he glanced at you before saying.
《Hello Y/N, we are the agents of the I.T.A who will give you the provided stuff by the agency and some more information for the mission. I introduce myself and my friend: I am Matthew and the blond head his Thomas.》
You looked at Thomas who waved at you will taking two suitcases out of the trucks.
《So Y/N, mmmh... you will go back to ninety-ninety-sixty-nine for the Bossa Nova mission. Remember : you need to take some unreleased songs, private content by taking pictures and also the red book... very important things to take.》
You nodded and his friend join him and give you the two suitcases you takes.
《Also, remember, no contact with Elvis, only professional and small talk. It would be hard but you can do it! Don't hesitate to sneak into his personal belongings if needed. Moral in that case is not important we just need the content ok?》
You nodded, you were disgusted by what he said. You never heard that in any of your missions. "No morality"? You find it kinda disrespectful toward your target. With the last one, you never used to be in the immortality or do bad things... so you were shocked that the agency tolerated that sort of behavior.
《Also, be careful, don't make yourself seen in any way and especially seen by Mister Presley. Be as inexistent as a ghost. Mister Presley is impulsive so don't draw attention to yourself. In those suitcases, you can find all your fake papers, your material as a photographer, clothes, and all the other stuff you need for living in the past.》
Thomas also give you an envelope which contained all the money you need. He tell you.
《In there, there is all the money you need. Of course, the Elvis team will pay you but you know. We need to be far-sighted. Also, you obviously already have the job as the personal photographer of Mister Presley. You will meet them at ten in the morning in the International hotel. Don't be late.》
You nodded and Matthew took out of his pocket a pink round powder compact and gave it to you. You looked at him curiously and took it before opening it and open your mouth surprised. It was not a powder compact but a hidden phone... like in the cartoon "Totally Spies".
《And if you ever need help or anything, you can use this phone to contact us or even contact your family, friends, lover, or whatever. This is a new gadget from the agency and it worked pretty well! Also, the loop is situated in the restroom. An agent will wait for you in the restaurant, he is the owner so don't worry about being seen or not. Good luck Y/N.》
《Oh th-...》
You lift your head and see that you are alone, those two disappear the same way as they appeared. You sighed, you took your luggage, and entered the abandoned restaurant.
It was dark, dirty, and dusty inside, the smell was terrible and there were crashed glasses and syringes on the ground. Sometimes you ask yourself why the agency put their loop in the most disgusting, scariest, and obscure location in the world. You walk slowly and carefully before entering the darkest corridors you ever seen, nothing was perceptible, you were just able to hear the sound of you heels crushing syringes and broken glasses bottle on the ground.
You hardly find the door of the restroom but, hopefully, you find it. You open the door and a terrible sent welcome you, so terrible that you keep you breathe and start breathing with your mouth.
《I really should talk with the administration about putting those loops in better place.》
You say out loud. You shut the door behind you before looking towards you and see it: a big white lightening hole in the wall, it was the size of the wall and very very light and white, so white that it start to hurt your eyes.
《Here we go now, we go to the sixties baby》
You telling yourself. You walk and enter the hole letting your whole body be swallowed by that hard white light. You shut your eyes and let the feeling of peace filled your whole body. Enter this hole was always for you the best feeling because you always feel empty but not in a bad way, it is always relaxing and comforting to enter the portal... until you arrived in the past and just crashed in the ground like you right now did, like the hole spit you in a new whole world.
《OUCH!》
You stay during a few second lie on your stomach on the ground before standing up, touching your face and your neck to see if you were wounded by that crash. You look beside your and see your suitcase also on the floor. You feel soothed and stand up your suitcases before hearing the door opened, you glanced at the door and see a dark haired men who was two time taller than you and muscular enter in the restroom. He seems very old too, you squint you eyes to see him despite the darkness before a feeling of happiness filled your whole heart.
《UNCLE DANNY?》
《Y/N?》 He respond happily.
You two go hug each others with a lot of happiness and surprised. Uncles Danny was your dad brother, those two were working for the agency since they were twenty-five. contrary to your father, uncle Danny still work as an agent but more to welcome the traveler who need to accomplish a mission than a real agent. He go back everyday on the futur but just enough to not get stuck in it, that was why you didn't see him that much.
《You have grown so much since I've seen you!》
You laughed and took your suitcases before responding.
《it's been a true while. However, since my mission is in the same timeline as you, we will see each other more often!》
《Real little Y/N, you need to tell me everything because your father will tell me nothing about what's going on!》
You and your uncle go out of the restroom as you talk about the future, your lover, the life with your parent, your social life, and your successful career while he is talking about his life in the sixties and how he dealt with it. You also have the opportunity to see the restaurant in his living years. That one was a cliché of those American restaurants from the sixties (and you find that very funny). As the two of you talk, you leave the restaurant and your uncle closes it before getting in his car.
He put on some music and started to ride in the direction of a motel. You are very tired so you don't talk that much, you even start to fall asleep in the car but your uncle wakes you up when you were finally arrived.
《Wake up Y/N, we are arrived in your destination!》
You slowly open your eyes and see in front of you an old motel that look very shabby and cheap. You looked at your uncle who says.
《I know... it's not the best place in the world but I don't choose where you gonna sleep! If you want to complain, complain to the agency》
You rolled your eyes amused by what your uncle said before retorted.
《I'm not a spoiled child, I'm not gonna complain just ending this mission as quickly as possible and going back to the future!》 You were very confident and that makes your uncle smiled.
He gives you a piece of paper with his phone number on it before telling you.
《If you need to see me. Call me ok?》
You put it in your handbag and nodded.
《Don't worry!》
You hugged him before saying goodbye and get out of the car. You take all of your luggage out of the car's truck before going into the motel.
The interior seems quite modern for his time, you who will think it was looking cheaper and Chabby was in fact in the wrong. You go take a room at the reception and it was a lady that takes your application. You paid and she gave you the key to the room one-hundred-sixty-four. Although she seems nice, you can see in her eyes that she is suspicious about you as if something was odd with you.
You preferred not paying attention to it and directly to your room. You walk in a very bright corridor covered by art paintings before taking spiraled wooden stairs. You go to the first floors and longed the corridor until findings the door of your room.
You take the key to open it and push the door, you enter the room and close the door. You put your luggage beside the big large bed before sitting on it and taking a big breath. You look at the ceiling and take a time to rest.
Tomorrow will be a long day! But that's not the most important. Tomorrow... you will met Elvis Presley, and just thinking of that make you standing and heard you heart pounded.
Because you were busy you didn't even realize how big it was : meeting Elvis Presley, working for him and be near him. You blink multiple time your eyes.
《Oh my god! Y/N how can you be calm when you gonna met Elvis in person?》 You're telling at yourself in total shock.
You tried to calm yourself, and you took your luggage first and inspected it. There were a lot of clothes, your camera, your fake ID papers, perfume, makeup, some types of vinyl you take with you, your plushies, and other stuff. you take you skincare with you and go to the bathroom.
That room was very classy and neat for a cheap motel, you even ask yourself if this motel was very cheap. You start cleaning your face and take off your clothes and while doing that you still thinking about tomorrow: how it would be? how do resist in front of the King? is this going to go well? You were stressed and even doing you skincare can't calm you down.
You go back to the main room in underwear and directly go into you bed, covering yourself with the black blanket and taking your plushy that you put on the bed before. You hug it tightly and still think about tomorrow.
You think about meeting Elvis, about the mission and about your father but also you lover. Everything was so stressfull but you try to calm yourself down: "everything gonna be fine" you told yourself. You set your alarm clock at eight in the morning for tomorrow because laying in your bed and taking a time to calm down
You little by little you fall in a deep state of sleep without knowing that tomorrow will be one of the biggest day of your life.
“It’s easy for someone to joke about scars if they’ve never been cut.”
— William Shakespeare